Green Gecko wrote:Trelliz, I have a few average to above average PS1 racers in good condition I'd be happy to punt your way for postage alone, I've no interest in them really.

Thanks for the offer, but ps1 is where i tend to draw the line; stuff like gran turismo, wipeout etc to me look and play better on ps2+ without being different enough. I don't have a ps1 anyway and have had little joy emulating them.

Green Gecko wrote:...Certainly PS1 games look arse, the only halfway decent way of playing them today is on PSfat which is what I have. is on the official PSone LCD screen, where they still look kinda cool.

That's a good shout, too much tat though. PS1 games have a certain charm when blown up to about 28 inches square over HDMI, they look very clean. The PS3 handles the upscaling well. However, they still look like super advanced GBA screenshots at times. It's pretty damm neat that you can play 3 entire generations of games on a modern television with wireless controllers though, and half the ones you want but don't have, you can still download. It's a shame because Nintendo could quite easily have done this with the Wii U, but I understand one of the most expensive components in the Wii was actually its as yet unsurpassed dual disk slot loading mechanism that "eats" two completely different sized disks and reads 2 different formats.

To celebrate winning an unexpected contract for my business last week, I have treated myself to one more SNES game.

And it's quite a relevant one - the incredible Super Metroid! Got it in great condition in the big box with player's guide.

That was the last of the "essential" SNES games I wanted. Everything from now on can wait and is a bonus. This was the missing piece of my collection...and I finally have it (having previously sold my original copy years ago)!

AndyXL wrote:To celebrate winning an unexpected contract for my business last week, I have treated myself to one more SNES game.

And it's quite a relevant one - the incredible Super Metroid! Got it in great condition in the big box with player's guide.

That was the last of the "essential" SNES games I wanted. Everything from now on can wait and is a bonus. This was the missing piece of my collection...and I finally have it (having previously sold my original copy years ago)!

The data geek inside me decided to conduct a largely pointless exercise over the weekend. I collated all review scores awarded by NGC Mag for my GC games and compared them against the MetaCritic average. Across my collection, NGC Mag awarded on averaged 87.7% per game in my collection in contrast to MetaCritic's average of averages 84.4%. Not too bad.

Have to say that, in the cases where there were >10 percentage points difference in scores (of which there were 9 instances), I found myself siding with NGC Mag's score most of the time.